russia and the u.s. hope to find common ground despite their polar approaches to ending the syrian bloodshed as foreign minister lavrov is due to meet secretary of state hillary clinton and saying that as burke. surprising compromise e.u. leaders make concessions to finally agree on funneling money to struggling banks directly with talks at a brussels summit running well into the night. plus as egypt braces for fresh protests against military rule we look at the huge psychological toll that eighteen months of unrest have taken on the nation's people.

which is our take on me to live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program tough talks are on the table for russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as they meet in st petersburg today to discuss syria the two powers are deeply divided on how the crisis in the middle east country should be resolved lucy coffin of has more from st petersburg. if the two sides if rove and hillary clinton can come to some sort of position tonight in the meeting in st petersburg this really could drastically change the future of international action as it pertains to the syrian crisis the problem is that both sides have fundamentally different approaches to how we need to deal with this the u.s. has been pushing for a so-called yemeni style transition plan the first and foremost focuses on getting president bashar al assad out of office out of syria now the russian position has been that you know there's no need to have some sort of

a backroom deal by world powers that doesn't include the actual syrians themselves this is a crisis that the country is undergoing syrians in need to get together and find some sort of a transition that works for them this should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these sort of over these two to opposing sides are really going to come head to head tomorrow which is when the emergency talks in geneva are going to be held put together by kofi annan since it is clear that the cease fire has not worked so far on one hand if you're getting together world powers to sort of discuss the future of syria all of the key regional player should be involved while the u.s. taking position has been no iran at the talks they do not want the arena to be president. of the syrian government kofi annan himself has said that the iranians must be present at these talks and yet this was a sticking point and as a result iran is not included and it really sort of. brings some questions about

whether any sort of agreement is really possible if the key regional players who you know whose daily lives and geopolitical interests depend on what comes out of syria and depend on a stable syria are not involved. in of reporting there and st petersburg bringing us updates from the crucial meeting between russia and the u.s. on syria due to start later on friday while lucy is also posting all the latest on her twitter feed so don't forget. to check out that. now in syria itself president assad said in a rare interview that it's his government's duty to annihilate terrorists the interview coincided with an escalation of violence in the capital damascus that the authorities blame on terrorist groups and the latest incident to blast erupted near a syria's main justice complex artist with an option a visit to the side shortly after the attack. all right now to see don't think notion that happened here and thursday here in the old damascus you can see it was that much pozen are taken away and the city is now been cleaned this is

a public park and just. what was still receive in conflicting reports on how many people have been affected sana a syrian news agency is reporting that three people have been injured but it's very hard to confirm it's really hard to get any information about what happened here earlier today even on the ground the ron many police and security people with the name refused to talk and refused to provide any information on the incident the fact that these has happened in the very hard to the very center of the syrian capital rises questions and concerns over the security situation here in damascus has been on the governmental control but now it's been attacked more and more often by rebels and groups this has happened to stay up another attack occurred here in damascus the main building on the syrian state run television syria news already is so dear has been attacked by government sized terrorist groups killing at least

seven people now turkey has vowed to respond to the recent downing of his jab by syria was a terminations that says ankara deployed troops and tanks to the syrian border the turkish plane was shot down over the mediterranean a week ago turkey insists the fire was hit over it ashleigh waters were a serious as it was targeted and its airspace jeremy salt who is a turkey based professor of middle eastern history and politics says another incident could stretch times between ankara and damascus to breaking point. one just to see what's happening. in the tension between syria and turkey. and up to the border of syria is doing the same on the other side so quite clearly even though it seems that nato doesn't want to intervene in syria because of the dangers

what is trying to do is to bring down the syrian government by just watching a war of attrition from within another incident like this could trigger off you know because it's in between the top two countries and i think relation i mean you want john to say when it would happen if it would happen but that's right no. and for more on the syrian crisis you can go to our website r.t. dot com where our team has obtained a stirring video footage of an alleged massacre in the syrian city of hama syria family claims their relatives were slaughtered by rebels the story and more at r.t. dot com. now it's been a tough night in brussels were you here is how to make mutual concessions after several hours of bargaining they agreed to use the european bailout fund to funnel money directly to struggling banks a short term fix opposed by the german chancellor angela merkel artists are celia now reports from brussels. now what they did to spend a lot of time talking about was this new growth and jobs pact yet another practice

essentially ruling out one hundred twenty billion euros to help but to aid in the growth of the eurozone nations what's interesting is this is where the conflict had come into the picture spain and italy were refusing to sign that pact until they had gotten the short term fix that they need to calm the markets and bring down their borrowing costs will they did get it in the end seen as a compromise from germany at this point that is using e.u. funds to recapitalize banks directly rather than giving the money to the government in order to avoid the public deficit from going up and this is particularly relevant to spain at this point however markets did react quickly so they were able to calm the markets whoever the question there is how long are the markets going to be calm another question that we're good looking at is what are the strings attached you know germany was very much opposed to any short term measures until the long term structural reforms that merkel wants have been addressed so what are the details attached to this what are the conditions we still don't know that we

have to see that in order to assess how significant this step is and also the growth rate of one hundred twenty billion that is really small compared to the entire euro zone expectations were very low for this summit so this step recapitalizing banks directly from as positive in this sense whatever it is not the solution that addresses the big questions of structural changes in the u.s. on the fundamental problems to be addressed the leaders here having to go back to their own countries to present these decisions you know aguilar merkel is adamant to get back to germany today because the parliament is going to vote on the european stability mechanism that is a permanent bailout fund that's supposed to be put in place by july two thousand and twelve we're still waiting for ninety percent of years of members to ratify that she needs two thirds of the parliament to agree on that and we know from a survey in germany that about sixty percent of germans want to see a referendum on the german policy not of her.

party believes that euro zone countries won't be able to deal with their problems until they abandon the vinatieri union. look the eurozone is a fundamental misconstruction between economies that are so different i think it all became a treaty and between them was never going to work the only way forward for greece spain and portugal and such countries is to recognize that the euro is a mistake to break away from it to get their own currencies back to have a competitive devaluation and to get their own democracy is about that is the only way forward what we're doing here if we keep propping up the euro we get rid of ways of preserving and reinforcing failure what we're doing is guaranteeing a miserable future not just for the tens of millions of people who falls below the poverty line but actually we pay a very heavy social cost for this too in terms of insurrection and violence now our correspondent tesser silly is following all the reaction to their agreements add

the e.u. summit and her twitter feed including jokes by the journalist after angle of merkel gave then to the man's of italy and spain at the e.u. summit a german reporter told tessa that his country had lost twice to italy last night of course he is referring to the european championships and a file where italy be germany to one securing a passage to the file with r.t. for our sports both and later today for all the details on the match. now the protests mood in egypt doesn't seem to be subsiding despite a long anticipated announcement of the presidential vote results last weekend people again plan to take to the iconic to her ear square this friday to demand a complete handover of power from the military to the country's newly elected leader but amid the neverending swarm of political demands the psychological stress ordinary egyptians are constantly under is often ignored as artists policy are now explores. the pain as war as it was the day it happened was

just twenty one years old when he was killed near tahrir square the bullet that shattered his heart tore apart his family leaving his mother unable to carry on i was only in it i talk about him a lot i don't like to say that he's dead i see him in my dreams i'm waiting all the time for him to come home to me i beg god to bring him back. in the last eighteen months egypt since i've gone through one evolution three elections and countless mass protests the scars left by the unprecedented chaos and bloodshed and political battles run deep i saw people becoming more depressed more anxious using more drugs and alcohol those kinds of things seem to have changed because of the current events and the fear over what was happening next and it's not only those who are directly involved who have been affected in the only survey of its kind. spoke to ordinary egyptians to see how they're coping she found that sixty percent of

egyptians are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder of those forty seven percent have witnessed violence in the streets thirty four percent have stayed up late to watch television news reports of a violent nature and twenty eight percent feel stressed because the financial situation has deteriorated i do believe the public has been trying to lose especially since so things are a lot different after the uprisings as we were before and people before used to enjoy a very low crime rate for example very little political change however after the uprisings and there was more crime there is an increase in crime wave which. which traumatized the public i think and the problems compounded because of the stigma attached with seeking help and this is only one of a handful of centers in cairo offering psychological assistance to people who need help but while some of those who were wasted and detained by the authorities have come here most egyptians have stayed away. but psychological help is the last thing

on mona's mind she can hardly scrape together enough money to buy food for her family she gets a little comfort from believing her son died for a cause but even that threatens to be wiped out as the country braces itself for a fresh round of protests as anger against the ruling military mounts policy r t cairo. so how free our team is facing a deadline well we believe that it or julia songs turn himself over to u.k. police and as ecuador is still miles over his request for asylum fears of outside pressure on the nation intensify. plus searching for energy independence but coming up short the u.k. seeking out foreign investors to help give it a boost but it's an enterprise that critics say could be putting lives at risk.

watching r t r join a sanchez he has no plans to hand him self over to police after being someone for extradition procedures and his interview with the b.b.c. the whistleblower stressed that asylum law both internationally and a massively takes precedence over extradition law there were leaks out of there has been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london for over a week waiting for the south american state to decide on his bid for political asylum ecuador has been taking a stand i'm studying the allegations that if handed over to sweden a songe could eventually face prosecution in the us were espionage can carry

a death sentence but cyber admin's founder of the national security was the lowers coalition says the longer the way the more chance like your door is coming under pressure from washington. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the. letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of all to made them send tracts from the united states so the rest assured that you right now as we speak the state department is giving the door plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the nominal whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and be i'm hoping that their decision would be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana signage but considering the weight the united states carries but also

considering that he's three of our nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on the other governments it will remain to be seen. now tie this and other stories are always available at r t dot com to check out what else we have lined up for you online. drop dead gorgeous some have to valerie amos put in artistic military displays through the eyes of the bolshoi cedars lead choreographer. and quit smoking and a shot of a new york lab develops a vaccine to help you kid the nicotine habit find out more dot com. facing a possible energy shortfall in the coming years britain is looking for a boost yet with no money to develop nuclear power alone it must try and seduce foreign investors but it's a decision that has manny wondering if the u.k. government is putting profits before safety as artists are first now explains.

britain wants to keep the lights switched on and to do so it says it needs nuclear power real to security thing and that has to be security of supply and we don't want to have our security to supply the paulding trade over twenty three or four to do that or on the way forward those were. going on but we must look for another. energy distribution energy and that would be nuclear the u.k. might say it wants energy independence but it's clear plans need powering with money and it's money britain doesn't have investment for these plants is sorely lacking french company e.d.f. had been slated to build a number of the new plants but in the wake of the fukushima disaster these plans have been put on hold there were originally for companies that were looking at. working on developing new nuclear power stations in britain but the other two. have

both now pulled out so it's almost as if the government hasn't noticed the writing on the wall that's left the government having to hunt further afield for the much needed cash despite saying they won't let the pendants on outside sources it's countries like japan and china that person's reported to have been touting around for investment and you know in a sense we're kind of offshore project for other countries i mean it seems to me bizarre that the u.k. which is quite a big and supposed to go to country. opening up of foreign investment from other countries because they need desperately to invest in nuclear their own countries don't want to take it so they're going to have britain having being one of the first countries to gain new clear britain's power stations are now old with many being decommissioned and with nuclear accounting for around sixteen percent of the country's energy provision the government says if it doesn't get the investment in the new plants it needs it could face in. and she sure as early as two thousand and

twenty the soda nikkei a plantain broadwell is one of eight sites the u.k. government has identified as being suitable for a new girls' but local residents here say that it's far from suitable in a place fukushima while the people say that though it's unlikely where a major nuclear disaster to happen here it would be extremely hard to evacuate local communities and their if is that the governments are more concerned with securing investments than securing their safety and there are other concerns too in a bid to attract investment the government's draft energy bill indicated those willing to build the new plants to charge consumers higher prices to guarantee healthy profits and it seems the government has left itself alternative sort of sloppy brute. pragmatism is going to happen if nuclear doesn't happen something else will and he's pointing the government already because they can get the

investment in place. for the nuclear program that they wanted to have in the time that they wanted. despite having once led the way along the nuclear policy poor planning and investment struggles have left britain trailing behind with tapes now pinned on foreign investment that may or may not materialize the future of britain's energy provision is now not looking quite say bright surf city london. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world cans of thousands of high school and college students have clashed with police in chile the group marched through santiago waving banners and flags calling for education reforms officers fired water cannon at protesters after they were hit with rocks and had their police van attacked the government has made some concessions in the wake of recent rallies and students say the changes aren't enough. the crew of china

spacecraft is back safely on the ground the team including the nation's first female astronaut spent nearly two weeks in space practicing docking missions with a module praise the program as it works towards building its own space station china will become the third country after the u.s. and russia to sand independently maintain space and to orbit. us democrats are applauding a ruling by the supreme court calling president barack obama's health care legislation constitutional under the controversial law most americans are required to purchase health insurance by twenty fourteen or pay a fine for reforms were opposed by nearly every republican lawmaker claiming it was against the law to force people to buy a private product the courts vertica seen as a major victory for obama as he is up for reelection in the van for now if you have an opinion on obama's health care reform then share it on the web site r t dot com

. so right now seventy percent believe it will benefit both the american people and the u.s. economy twelve percent feel a bomb is just electioneering and thirty one percent think it's a red herring distracting the nation from a lumia konami crisis and the majority which is forty percent and now say it's designed for insurers benefit only so do i just know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com and now we have strayed into the world of business maureen is there with us well marina what are you saying vespers are optimistic the mood tends to change our so the case right now. saying that i know but this time it is their friend and i'm really excited about that because of course was all about a lot of money leaders said that they would commit suicide. around one hundred fifty billion dollars so investors are a mistake and the optimism is definitely here to stay that's what it seems for now

if it's a. look at the latest numbers in europe will see that their government strength to strength the footsie is adding over one percent a german dax is still adding over two and a half percent and of course we have the banking sector rally in this pressure when it comes to its early and spain not just to give you more details on what e.u. leaders this is also now a proposal out life for a single supervisory mechanism for europe's banking system now banks will have the possibility of direct recapitalization with the financial system provided by the region's current bailout fund but that's until the new european stability mechanism becomes available. and naturally the euro is also going from strength to strength against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble of course to avoid losing to the euro naturally when it comes to the u.s. dollar it is still again in though if you move on and take a look at the russian markets they're picking up on that often ism for me europe and also we're seeing gains the r.t.s. over two and a half percent of my sex over two percent this hour and of course stronger crude

prices are helping this wall get to that and as i can but first let's take a look at the major movers on the my six financials are doing quite well for a bank is gaining over two percent carmaker off the vases again they're out a half a percent this hour and we know that its net sales plunged eleven percent fourteen percent i should say that's in the first half of the year that doesn't seem to be having any effect on investors today and also we have gas monopoly gas from gaining over one percent and that's as its annual general meeting is expect take place and we already have some results from that in fact i'll tell you the company's two thousand and eleven net profit more than doubled reaching ever occurred twenty seven a billion dollars also gas from ensure that in a few days it will come up with a new conditions regarding the stock move project in the barents sea and the shareholders of the world's biggest gas company are also expected to like the company's board members and approve major. deals will also decide on the dividends

very important of course which could be record high this year from what we hear and of course we'll keep you updated on the meeting throughout the day where it ends with gas from we also know that the company is now involved in the territorial dispute between china and vietnam china's all corporation seen the as a sort of an exploration tender in an offshore region that hunt only says infringes on blogs already licensed to the russian form as well as america's exxon mobile asian claims sovereignty over almost the end timers south china sea which is believed to contain large oil and gas deposits and straddles the global trade routes and analysts say gas from might quit the project just to keep its business ties with the world's second largest economy. and of course on the outs take a look at oil prices they're heading higher and this comes their rebounding after the lowest close in almost nine months there we have light sweet trading close to eighty dollars per barrel and that's something that investors are very happy about

especially russian ones and when it comes the bride buying this approach in ninety three dollars per barrel let's move on and take a look at a close were trading there was an optimistic day there as well we had the nikkei added one and a half percent and close to all over two percent in the black there so there you have a full once completely optimistic across the board marina. all right well you said it again he said optimistically i would have been next hour stone drinks marina don't jinx it i don't want to talk about any passing i don't want to say today it's use as optimistic all right we'll see we'll see the picture next hour thanks very much for now for the subject marina cossar there from the business desk as usual we'll bring you the headlines in just a few moments. the

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